And it's not a fabrication. I watched enough AC a few years back to know this is true. Others can chime in. I know
@Runner77 has spoken about this too. Lemme guess, we're all lying or exagerating. There's no pro-Quebec slant on RDS? You deny any of this?
No one can deny that there is a
ti-gars d'chez nous slant on AC. I can understand it to an extent, they need to fill air time and appeal to their core audience and showing a favorable bias to locals is good for their ratings.
Doesn't mean however that we shouldn't exercise critical thought in respect of their show content. Just like the time they had this outspoken separatist on AC as a guest chair filler from a month or two ago, who was spewing condescending ethno-phobic diarrhea, going as far as imitating English speakers with a bad Franco accent and doing so more than once and for such a prolonged time that the occupants of the other blue couches visibly uncomfortable and didn't know how to react. That AC allowed this type of individual to take over the show, when his views were widely known as an outspoken
séparaciste, is an example amongst many about how there are certain POVs no matter how extreme, that are nonetheless allowed air time that they couldn't otherwise get elsewhere in prime time.
There are other examples, less extreme, of an innate bias, where they equate being a québécois to having a Franco name and being
de souche, as you mentioned with the Torey Mitchell example. Of course, just cause they have PJ Stock on their panel, doesn't absolve them of anything. A guy like Gaston who is always there, has been known to dabble in politics disguised as sports and isn't at all shy to express a more than heavy favoritism when it comes to local players.
However, all too often, when all you're looking for are analysts to argue facts, they let their very personal biases get in the way and it ultimately almost always results in someone who isn't local, to become a convenient scapegoat. Just look at how long it took them to come around to issuing criticism about Drouin's efforts -- they coddled him until they couldn't anymore, while at the same time, "analysts" like Gaston swung a heavy bat on Galchenyuk's head, repeatedly, inferring that he couldn't be too intelligent.